A FULLERENE WITHOUT A SPIRAL
The spiral conjecture for fullerenes, namely that the surface of every fullerene may be unwound in at least one continuous spiral strip of edge-sharing five- and six-membered rings, is shown to be strictly false. The smallest tetrahedral fullerene that cannot be unwound in such a spiral has 380 atom...
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1993
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